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UAE’s GlobalEye Fleet To Grow Next Year
The Emiratis could be operating five GlobalEyes by the end of 2024
UAE’s fourth GlobalEye
The UAE’s fourth GlobalEye lifts off from a snowy Linköping on its maiden post-modification flight in early April. The unpainted aircraft highlights the new fuselage-side fairings. (Photo: Saab)

Saab expects to fly the fifth GlobalEye multi-sensor airborne early warning and surveillance aircraft for the UAE imminently. Although the Swedish company hasn't announced the delivery schedule for the fourth and fifth examples of the Emirati aircraft, it expects to hand them over sometime next year.

As the launch export customer, the UAE ordered two GlobalEyes in November 2015 and exercised an option for a third aircraft in February 2017. Saab delivered the first in April 2020 and the last in February 2021, shortly after the announcement of a follow-on order for two more.

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